UW Oshkosh Essential Learning Outcomes

Essential Learning Outcomes

Charged in 2007, the Liberal Education Reform Team (LERT) adapted the AAC&U definition of Liberal Education for our campus: Liberal Education is a philosophy of education that empowers individuals with broad knowledge and transferable skills and a strong sense of values, ethics and civic engagement. These broad goals have endured even as the courses and requirements that comprise a Liberal Education have changed over the years.

Characterized by challenging encounters with important and relevant issues today and throughout history, a Liberal Education prepares graduates both for socially valued work and for civic leadership in their society. It usually includes a general education curriculum that provides broad exposure to multiple disciplines and ways of knowing, along with more in-depth study in at least one field or area of concentration.